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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by tisonlyi
Actually, as an atheist in practise and a technical agnostic, I LOVE hearing the arguments of theists, etc. The further they push the argument, the firmer ground that my opinion (not belief!) rests upon.
When you stop listening to, acknowledging and debating the points of your opposites, you've lost. Always. I can think of no exceptions.
THERE WILL BE NO DEBATE.
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Originally Posted by tisonlyi
How could teaching critical thinking not put an agnostic on firmer ground?
Genuine question, not trolling.
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It sometimes does. A good friend of mine solidified his agnostic beliefs with the same religion classes that we all had to take, jews, mulsims, atheists, all of us had to take it as part of the required curriculum for graduation. For me it moved me further away from the Church because I didn't agree with the dogmas. It didn't change my belief is "sky god" because well, I just don't know and I'm not willing to bet the farm on nothing existing, I'll take a safer bet on something existing and living a better life because of it. win. win. pascal's logic I think someone mentioned to me in another threac.
knifemissle, my apologies at the assumption, but it is the only thing I can do based on little to no information. If you aren't part of the staff there you may not know any of the inner workings of the decisions that are made, the day to day amount of spam and moderation that comes into working behind the scenes. Because of my exposure here, I have to assume that it's greater than zero.
But again, it's their sandbox and they can decide how to play within those confines. We've changed and shifted over time here, not to drastic degrees, but even the roles of staff have recently changed from enforcer to content creator and discussion maker. More involvement and less observation/referee.
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Originally Posted by Poppinjay
It's popped up in threads about how we converse with each other, and there was Pastor Tim who left TFP because of those types of responses to his threads.
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yes. that's a testament to the people here who say "i'm open minded and respectful, but only within these confines"
I'm always reminded of how the BDSM community looks down on plain vanilla sex folks because they aren't open minded enough.. and I'm like, Hellloooooooo... why are you doing what you don't want them to do to you???
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Last edited by Cynthetiq; 10-02-2008 at 06:51 AM..
Reason: Automerged Doublepost
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